ISOM SYMBOLIC ART

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

DOODLING

Yes, my drawings look like doodles.

“The term doodle has had a negative connotation throughout history, at one point denoting a fool, then as a verb to swindle or ridicule. It was even used to describe a corrupt politician. Maybe that’s why today we think of doodling as a waste of time or a sign of boredom. But doodling is the first step in visual communications. “The purpose of visual language has always been to communicate ideas to others.” After all, weren’t the cave drawings just early doodles?”

http://www.globeuniversity.edu/blogs/college-life/the-importance-of-doodling/

A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class.Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures.

According to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power, as well as from not paying attention. Thus, it acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. The study was done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, who reported that doodlers in her experiment recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group made of non-doodlers.